Why do most Democratic Assembly members act like chew toys for Speaker Sheldon Silver?

He disgraced his party and legislative chamber by paying off Albany sex abuse victims with taxpayers' money, violating the state's Public Officers Law. How can Assembly Democrats face women voters while they tolerate this moral monster as their boss?

Shifty Shelly is a poster boy for everything that's wrong with Albany. He's a lawyer for Weitz & Luxenburg, a firm that makes millions by filing personal

injury lawsuits.

As Assembly speaker, Silver has crushed all attempts to reform an out-of-control

litigation process that floods the courts with frivolous lawsuits. He's been entrenched for nearly 20 years, but Shelly's shelf life has finally expired due to voter outrage.